themanupstairs

Needs to start instead of that shithouse Guti.

Big time.

Gutierrez is akin to a closing pitcher in baseball, who could come on to help see out a winning result in the last few minutes. Nothing more at all. Home or away, derby or not, he should not start matches for us when the little gem that is Marveaux is available.

So chuffed for the little man 

Hadn't realized he'd come on. Did jonas go off for him?

Here's to a long and successful career at NUFC 

Absolutely no reason not to play Ben Arfa from the start like. If there's been no reaction to his injury, we should give ourselves the best start possible and bring him off at 60 minutes if he tires. Taking the risk of bringing him on at 0-0 after 70 minutes is madness tbh. The kind of pressure we (and he) don't need at home when 3 points would all but guarantee our safety.

Wish HBA squared the ball back to Cabaye for the one-two. We'd have had an away goal.

Seems to know exactly what will happen in an opposition attack before it happens. A defensive clairvoyant. Defends with such ease, almost without breaking a sweat. That phase of play where he totally shut down an attack down our right side, and won a freekick towards the end of the game. Defeat-avoiding play that was.

Also love how he brings the ball out.

Superb player.

PE Aubameyang would be a good addition to the team in the close season, but I feel we need someone in the Bony mould as an alternative option to Cisse.

Mentioned this in another thread.

 

Ideal time to blood him further in midfield 3 with Tiote & Cabaye. Tiote's physical presence would allow Anita to concentrate on what he does best ie. run/carry & link-up man through the middle third. I think his movement & burst-of-pace would kick-off our transition play through the middle.

 

Well schooled (in pass & move footy) & technically very neat. Good little footballer, sorely undervalued atm. No doubt has his eyes on a big prize too, WC Brazil. But he's not a big physical speciman ala Moussa, and he's not as physical (in attitude) as Perch, and Gutz is being afforded too much loyalty from the manager. He's in a difficult spot imho, which is a pity - good little player. Being a peripheral figure here behind Gutz (with Perch's 'tackle' value often preferred too) doesn't help his chances for inclusion at the business end of the qualy campaign. He deserves clarfication on this front. Understandable if a resquest for a move away eventuates.

Good post

It's absolutely laughable, and bordering on criminal, that a top division side is almost zero threat from set pieces as we are. There is no excuse for it whatsoever. We're forfeiting about 5% of our chances of scoring during a game the way we go about our corners and free kicks.

Point for BR me thinks.

Swansea played football for about 3 minutes and that was it. Utterly shit result for us. Fuck me are they a bunch of diving little nancy boys! Deserved at least a point. Marveaux should have been on to try and create something.

Oh well. Moving on.

The great Shabani Nonda 

bye like

moussa dembele that lethargic flat-footed s*** c*** can f*** right off injuring my captain nolan. 

 

all i can hope for now is a couple of goals from.....kyle walker

 

Why the f*** did you Captain Nolan?

I wasn't sure Rooney would start for Man Utd (and he didn't).

I didn't think Mata would do much against Man City (and he didn't).

I didn't think Walcott would do much against Villa (and he didn't).

I figured Nolan has a good history in derby matches, and that he'd at least score. (and he didn't).

With Michu and Suarez not playing this week, no one else I had was much cop for captain.

Should've captained Sissoko

Parker and his circles man never gets old.

moussa dembele that lethargic flat-footed s*** c*** can f*** right off injuring my captain nolan. 

all i can hope for now is a couple of goals from.....kyle walker

That spurs song is so so so so shit

All you can ask for from a sub keeper is to play solid and make as few mistakes as possible when called upon. Not exactly sure what people expect other than that.

We're not in a position to have 2 top keepers fighting for the number 1 spot. When Harper eventually retires, we'll maybe take a look at Alnwick but our recent links with a young keeper don't bode too well for him.

Elliot more than did his job on Sunday, and I hope he carries that positive performance into the rest of the games he will play.

bump

At a guess, Perch, Ameobi, Jonas and?

Interesting question, who is the better player, Cole or Gerrard?

 

Beckham 

With all due respect, Gary Pallister. imo.

Not currently a PL player, but Fabregas for me is ridiculously overrated. No doubt he's a good player. Just nowhere near as good as people say. Not worthy of a place in Barcelona's squad, nevermind the first team.

Isnt a single midfielder in the world that's better than him, apart from his teammates

Bollocks. Juan Mata shits all over him and that's only in the Spanish set-up. The guy has no bottle and has shown nothing of his "leadership" skills since his move from Arsenal. Like I said, he's no doubt a good player. He's just nowhere near the calibre of player you allude to.

Not currently a PL player, but Fabregas for me is ridiculously overrated. No doubt he's a good player. Just nowhere near as good as people say. Not worthy of a place in Barcelona's squad, nevermind the first team.

This may be his only real chance at the big time. His 15 minutes of fame. Needs to step up to PL level of awareness and keep a level head. He looks like he can hack it, and I hope he does himself proud in the time he will have to cover for Krul.

Woodman and Pardew should be working on a crash course in communication with the back 4 for Sunday's game.

Come on lad

Rubbish. 6 pts. Still have Nolan ©, Zabaleta, Walker, Azpilicueta, Mata, Marveaux and Sissoko to go.

Giggs has scored.